ROYAL ROAD TO CARD MAGIC

by Jean Hugard and Frederick Braué - paperback!

Hugard and Braué are undisputed authorities on card tricks.  The Royal Road to Card Magic is the best reference source for card tricks with any deck of cards, including a borrowed one.  None of the sleights or moves required are beyond the capabilities of the average performer. There are no difficult gambler sleights, or moves that require years of practice. 

In 310 pages, with 121 clear illustrations, the book teaches you the basic techniques of card magic. 20 chapters cover effects ranging from close up magic for an audience of one, to platform effects for a large audience.

  • Introduction by Paul Fleming
  • Preface

    Part One

  • I. The Overhand Shuffle, I
    • Position of the Pack in the Hands
    • Execution of the Overhand Shuffle
    • Using the Overhand Shuffle
    • Controlling the Top Card
    • Controlling the Bottom Card
    • Retaining the Top and Bottom Cards in Position
    • Top Card to Next to Bottom and Back to the Top
    • The Run
    • The Injog
    • The Undercut
    • Overhand Shuffle Control
    • Retaining Top Stock
    • Overhand False Shuffle
    • Overhand Shuffle Practive Routine
    • Tricks with the Overhand Shuffle
    • Topsy-Turvy Cards
    • A Poker Player's Picnic
    • A Pocket Discovery
    • Telepathy Plus
    • Thought Stealer
    • Pinkie Does It
    • A Card and a Number
  • II. The Riffle Shuffle
    • Riffle Shuffle Control
    • Retaining a Card at the Top of the Deck
    • Retaining the Bottom Card or Cards
    • Riffle Shuffle in the Air
    • Tricks with the Riffle Shuffle
    • An Instinct for Cards
    • Mirror of the Mind
    • Ultra Card Divination
  • III. Flourishes
    • Displaying the Top Card
    • The Ruffle
    • The Click
    • Spread and Turnover
    • Gathering the Ribbon-Spread Pack
    • Springing the Cards
    • A Flourish Count
    • Throwing a Card
    • Waterfall Shuffle
    • The Fan
    • One-Hand Fan
    • Thumb Fan
    • Pressure Fan
  • IV. The Glide
    • Design for Laughter
    • The Observation Test
  • V. The Glimpse
    • Bottom-Card Glimpse I
    • Bottom-Card Glimpse II
    • Bottom-Card Glimpse III
    • Top-Card Glimpse I
    • Fan Peek
    • Tricks with the Glimpse
    • Gray's Spelling Trick
    • Round and Round
  • VI. The Key Card
    • The Key Undercut
    • Key Undercut Shuffle
    • Tricks with the Key Card
    • Do as I Do
    • The Three Piles
    • The Twenty-Sixth Card
    • A Meeting of the Minds
    • The Non-Poker Voice
    • Intuition with Cards
    • Sliding Key Card
  • VII. The Palm
    • Top Palm I (Single Card)
    • Top Palm II (Several Cards)
    • Palm Glimpse
    • Replacing Palmed Cards
    • Tricks with the Palm
    • Card in the Pocket
    • Now You See It!
    • Grab-Bag Card
    • Good-Luck Card
    • Do It and Fail
    • Gathering of the Clan
    • Spring Catch
    • A Vested Interest
    • Piano Trick
  • VIII. The Backslip
    • Backslip Force
    • Backslip Control
    • Tricks with the Backslip
    • Lightning Card
    • The Tantalizer
    • Under Your Hat
  • IX. The Overhand Shuffle, II
    • Injog and Break
    • Overhand Break Control
    • Overhand Lift Shuffle
    • Lift Shuffle Force
    • Spread and Break
    • Holding a Break
    • Spread and Break Control
    • Tricks with the Overhand Shuffles
    • The Sevens
    • Obliging Aces
    • Leapfrog
    • Spectator's Card Trick
    • A Poker Puzzle
  • X. False Shuffles and Cuts
    • Optical Shuffle
    • Charlier Shuffle
    • The Cut
    • Palm Cut
    • Tricks with the Shuffles and Cuts
    • An Incomprehensible Divination
    • Circus Card Trick
    • Black Jack, Detective
  • XI. The Double Lift and Turnover
    • Double-Lift Glimpse
    • Double-Lift Card Reverses
    • Rapid Transit
    • The Trey
    • Ambitious Card
    • Throughth and Consequences
    • Insidious Dr. Fu Liu Tu
  • XII. The Pass
    • Riffle Pass
    • Spread Pass
    • Spring Pass
    • Tricks with the Pass
    • Off Agin, On Agin, Finnegin!
    • Kangaroo Card
    • Righting a Wrong
    • Blindfolded Pack
    • Double Speller
  • XIII. Miscellaneous Flourishes
    • Color Change
    • Double Color Change
    • The Changing Card
    • Self-Cutting Deck
    • A Pretty Cut
    • Pop-Up Card
    • A Bit of Byplay
    • Charlier Cut
    • Acrobatic Aces

      Part Two

  • XIV. The Reverses
    • First Method
    • Second Method
    • Third Method
    • Fourth Method
    • Reversed Location
    • Tricks with the Reverses
    • Spellbound
    • A Tipsy Trick
    • Double Reverse
    • Mentalivity
    • Mountebank Miracle
  • XV. The Hindu Shufle and other Controls
    • Hindu Shuffle Control
    • Hindu Shuffle Force
    • Hindu Shuffle Glimpse
    • The Step
    • Natural Jog
    • Twelve-Down Riffle
    • Tricks with the Hindu Shuffle
    • All Change Here
    • Ewephindit
  • XVI. The Classic Force
    • One-Hand Force
    • Bottom Force
    • Slide-Out Force
    • Two-Card Force
    • Riffle-Break Force
    • Sliding-Key Force
    • Double-Lift Force
    • Cut Force
    • Tricks with the Force
    • Justice Card Trick
    • Fours of a Kind
    • Pulse Trick
  • XVII. Top and Bottom Changes
    • Top Change
    • The Changing Card
    • Top-Change Byplay
    • Bottom Change
    • Top and Bottom Changes
  • XVIII. Arrangements
    • Tricks with Arrangements
    • The Selective Touch
    • A Future in Cards
    • Jacks Wild
    • Think Stop
    • Deal Away
    • The Educated Cards
    • Reds and Blacks
  • XIX. Routines
    • Routining Card Tricks
    • A Table Routine
    • Card-Discovery Routine
    • Razzle-Dazzle Routine

      Part Three

  • XX. Platform Tricks
    • Conus Ace Trick
    • Ladies' Looking Glass
    • Everywhere and Nowhere
    • Egyptian Pocket
    • Cards to the Pocket
    • Enlarging and Diminishing Cards
    • Three Cards Across
    • Everybody's Card I
    • Everybody's Card II
  • Index

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